hahaha, alright, Will can comment on Born in the USA when he gets around to it, but I say we should move on to next months album.
So, we will be taking suggestions for the next 5 days for which album we should do for the next month. I have some suggestions, so here they are. Note: I haven’t heard any of these albums more than once, so it’s really a crapshoot.
This is by far the best album on this list. It is the deepest, most emotionally powerful album, possibly of all time. This is her best album and by far her most famous. (Stealing from wikipedia): In 1979 Mitchell reflected, “The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there either.”[1]
This album was extremely popular also when it came out. It has been sold 30 million times, and features a lot of really good tunes on it. I’ve only heard it a few times, and I seem to remember liking it a lot. It has a fair amount of angrier songs on it if memory serves me right, which is part of the reason I want to hear it again. The rage consumes…hahaha.
I’ve been meaning to do this one for a while. The first time I heard it, it reminded me of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and then shelved it until warmer weather arrives, as Lynyrd Skynyrd is absolutely summer, nothing else. Well, summer is just around the bend, and I want to whip this out regardless. I think this one will prove to be a little bit more of a difficult one to listen to, seeing as the last song on the album reminded me a lot of Captain Beefheart, the most challenging artist all-time. I am saving At Fillmore East for some extremely celebratory event anyways, their very famous live album.